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11:21 pm
May 19, 2004
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Following is a proposed change from NJ. At first read I thought it would be a help. But it appears that the sole purpose for this change was so that people would not eat the muskies during the time they contain the drug. Can't we lobby for a total catch and release season?
Please send comments to NJ.
Barry
In N.J.A.C. 7:25-6.13(f), the Council proposes a catch and release season from
March 20 to May 20, for muskellunge and tiger muskie from Echo Lake
Reservoir, Mercer Lake, Mountain Lake and Monksville Reservoir. These four
lakes provide brood stock for the Hackettstown State Fish Hatchery. Large
broodstock are trap netted from these lakes each spring and transported to the
Hackettstown facility. MS222, an anesthetic used at the hatchery to reduce injury
during handling, has a required twenty-one day consumption advisory associated
with its use. The proposed closed season would provide the necessary 21 day
closure, allow fish that would otherwise be kept at the hatchery for an extended
period to quickly be returned to their waters of origin thereby reducing hatchery
mortality, and result in an enhanced fishery for these waters.
We may only see what we look for.
1:01 am
We can lobby for one.Who would listen other than us?This sounds like an attempt to make hatchery fish handling less of a problem.Not a way to make a catch and release only season.If ch22 had there choice,catch and release season would be the hard water period.That seems to be a big problem.Not the spring.So as i reread your post Barry,i agree.
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